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Chris Peterson wrote:

mark swain wrote:Is that you done Chris P ???? Cos i have not even started?

No, just spent most of the day working with a new horse. Too tired to give this much more thought. Maybe tomorrow.

Quit hors'n 'round, pardner, and git back to that eyepiece .. the Martian herd is a'comin.

"As far as I can tell, aristarchusinexile, your entire enterprise is more than a solitary man with a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken." The chicken was supposed to clean up the mess, but she flew the coop even before arriving. Some birds are smarter than others, thos...

Sorry, the endothermic increase is the Earth system is caused by particulates and IR absorbing compounds in the atmosphere. Do the math,(or argue the math). 1,366 watts/ m^2/day hitting the Earth against the 12 terrawatts/day used by humans (90+ % created by fossil fuels @ 20% efficiency) 20% effic...

"aristarchusinexile" : Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen? GEORGE COSTANZA: Why don't we talk about it another time. "aristarchusinexile" : But you see my point here? You only hear...

Chris Peterson wrote: Believe what you want. Lots of people believe wrong stuff.

Obviously.

G'day rom the land of ozzzzzzz USA has fixed the Russian cash flow by making oil cheaper. Russia lost billions in the deal. Billions out of trillions? No problem. And the price will certainly go back up as summer tourist traffic increases. I'm not saying Russia is utopia, they have almost as many p...

harry wrote:G'day from the land of ozzzzzzz

In a way Chris's attitude has proven my point.

Still, it would be great to go on a trail ride with him.

makc wrote:that's mother of all daemons I think... and adam was the father.

Adam who?

Jim, the article states: "In physics, nonlocality is a direct influence of one object on another distant object, in violation of the principle of locality. In classical physics, nonlocality in the form of action at a distance appeared in corpusculas theories and later disappeared in field theo...

harry wrote:G'day Aris

You said

How about some downhome plasma tornados Harry?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... roras.html

Would you like to know how they form?

Sure. Well, I read the article again .. do you have more?

G'day Aris Success is a choice. Smile We all Beg to differ. Begging is like being in a hole and asking someone to help you dig deeper. Yes! I understand that sometimes you are found in situations that do not allow for choice. Its like the fly that keeps on trying to fly through a glass window and d...

There is no indication that "creating heat" is a problem. The amount of heat created by all human activities is vanishingly small compared to the heat put into the system by the Sun. Vanishingly small? When some scientists are saying 4 degree rise is enough for catastrophes? I must repeat...

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[ The Earth has ways of buffering short term changes (an overly simplified example). Place a thermometer in a beaker of H2O ice with a flame under it, if only monitoring the thermometer it's stable at 0 degrees ... until the buffering agent is depleted. Excellent example. I think the oceans and atm...

I know of no area of science where any of those regions are advanced beyond American or European work. How about the most obvious, the military sciences. According to all that is known the Europeans and Russians are far more highly advanced than the U.S. (the 600 mph Russian torpedo is only the tip...

BMAONE23 wrote:

aristarchusinexile wrote:

harry wrote:
Hey! Most of the world is religious.

Watch out for winged women.

don't let Lillith hear you say that

I've heard of her myth, but never heard her described as having wings. However .. I will perhaps speak more quietly.

This is not meant as an insult, but you're behind the times; and I can't remember which magazine I read it in. I can assure you there are no manned Mars missions currently planned, by any country. There is a certain amount of funding from NASA, and perhaps from the Russian space agency, for studyin...

"-- just trying to come to rest in the most stable position around, the center of mass of the earth/moon system, or as close to it as the stone can get? Rob Voila - matter which is not at rest disintegrates (rock or apple lying on the earth's surface) so that its basic components can get to a ...

With, however, non-locality proven and saying Relativity is wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Locality Sorry ari but I don't see why this article tells you eiter that non locality is proven or that relativity is wrong. You should explain why you have such an impression with your own words so ...

Chris Peterson wrote: "...Yet our eyes see no more than a faint band of gray light.

I've never looked through a telescope but I've seen the Milky Way looking a LOT brighter than a faint band of gray light.

Chris Peterson wrote: Dark matter doesn't expand- gravitationally, it behaves just like ordinary matter, which is why we can detect it so easily.

Chris .. you're slipping badly. We observe effects a certain theory says is caused by Dark Matter. Get some extra sleep tonight.

No, it can't be found because it doesn't physically exist in three dimensions. You would need something like a time machine to find it. Again, looking at the balloon, we, as 3D beings, can see the center of expansion. But it doesn't lie anywhere on the surface. No 2D inhabitant of that surface woul...

Then how can a 3D universe not have a true centre? It can, but that center does not lie in 3D space, any more than the center of a balloon's surface lies in the 2D space of that surface. The center of the Universe is a point in spacetime. It lies in a direction (time) that we can't see. If you were...

B ubble E xpansion A nti- G ravity L ightly E ntitled BEAGLE - anti-gravity bubbles (voids) growing, and causing the expansion of the universe created through (Pascual Jordan's revelation of) quantum-fluctuations in nothing. Additional bubbles in line of sight creating the increasing rate of expans...

BMAONE23 wrote:
A sence of self,
A central nervous system...

Electrical connections in atomic structure?